Did the school send you to put pressure on me?
“Jing Shu, you…” Zheng Xi stared at Jiang Jing Shu’s math test paper, unsure where to begin.
Jiang Jingshu was a little embarrassed. "Teacher, please teach me from the very basics. My math foundation is very weak. Don't worry, I will definitely work hard to learn."
Zheng Xi gave her a set of basic math problems, but Jiang Jingshu came from ancient times, so even the most basic things were full of difficulties for her.
Since Zheng Xi would find out her true level sooner or later anyway, and she would have to learn what she needed to learn eventually, Jiang Jingshu simply told the truth, "Teacher, I can't do this test paper."
Zheng Xi seemed surprised by Jiang Jingshu's reaction, after all, the question she asked was truly basic. If someone couldn't even solve such a simple sequence problem, then facing the college entrance examination a year later would be really bad.
However, Zheng Xi felt that Jiang Jingshu was quite honest, since she was able to admit what she didn't know. Some children, faced with this situation, would just bury their heads in their work and try to guess the whole thing.
Therefore, Zheng Xi was not discouraged. On the contrary, she still admired Jiang Jingshu. She could feel Jiang Jingshu's talent and thought that she just didn't study hard. As long as she explained things properly, Jiang Jingshu would get the hang of it and her grades would definitely improve by leaps and bounds.
Zheng Xi put the test paper into his bag and said to Jiang Jingshu, "Jingshu, let's call it a day. I've figured out your strengths and weaknesses. I'll come back next Saturday. You can stay home and study hard these two days. It's okay if you don't understand. Our study plan will officially begin next week."
Jiang Jingshu nodded and asked Zheng Xi, "Teacher, what score did you get on the college entrance exam?"
"I scored 687 points," Zheng Xi said. "I chose pure science subjects."
Jiang Jingshu's eyes immediately lit up. "Teacher, you're amazing!" She recalled Xie Zhijin's grades. Even someone as outstanding as Xie Zhijin only scored a little over 500 points. He scored 687 on the college entrance exam, which was truly remarkable. And it was purely in the sciences.
Mathematics alone was already giving Jiang Jingshu a headache, and with the other three subjects added on, she didn't even want to imagine how much more trouble she would have.
She was very curious, wondering where Jiang Yuan had found such a master.
"No, I'm just more diligent. Actually, I'm quite clumsy." Zheng Xi was a little embarrassed by the praise. She looked at Jiang Jingshu and said, "Don't call me teacher anymore. I'm only two or three years older than you. Just call me sister."
Jiang Jingshu nodded obediently and said, "Sister~"
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It's a new week, and Jiang Jingshu arrives at the classroom.
In English class, the teacher passionately recited vocabulary words on the stage, while the students below were drowsy.
It seemed that he couldn't bear to look at the lifeless classroom and wanted to find a way to wake up the children who had already fallen asleep.
"I'll give you ten minutes to memorize it yourselves. After ten minutes, I'll have someone come up to the stage and write it down from memory." Clearly, this method was effective, and most of the students in the audience had already woken up.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Jingshu, who had been daydreaming, quickly sat down and began to memorize the material.
Although she couldn't read the foreign language, Jiang Jingshu could still memorize it by copying the characters.
Jiang Jingshu memorized the fifteen words by rote and finally mastered them.
She wrote them down one by one from memory on the paper.
Ten minutes passed quickly, and the English teacher opened an app. "Let's try a different way of asking questions today."
The audience erupted in uproar.
"We'll draw lots to choose who will do the dictation." The English teacher hovered the mouse over the "Start" button, smiling at the students below. "Ready?"
Jiang Jingshu looked around. Some were diligently memorizing vocabulary, some were earnestly praying not to be chosen, and others had already memorized the words and didn't care about the result.
Her gaze shifted to Xie Zhijin's seat, and she frowned.
Did Xie Zhijin take the day off today? Is he feeling unwell? Jiang Jingshu was wondering when Xie Zhijin's name appeared on the big screen.
Hearing most of her classmates breathe a sigh of relief, Jiang Jingshu looked up and, as expected, saw her name. However, next to her name was Xie Zhijin's name.
"It seems the lucky ones have appeared. Jing Shu and Zhi Jin, please come up."
Jiang Jingshu stood up and walked to the blackboard. The class monitor told the English teacher that Xie Zhijin had asked for leave today.
"Did you ask for leave? Then we'll randomly select a lucky one."
The audience, who had just relaxed, tensed up again.
In the end, Jiang Jingshu and another well-behaved girl went up to the blackboard.
Jiang Jingshu had memorized it so well that she could write it down from memory very quickly.
After finishing the dictation, Jiang Jingshu was about to leave when she was stopped by her English teacher.
"Alright, you two did a great job with the dictation." After praising them, the English teacher called on Jiang Jingshu, "Why don't you read these words?"
Jiang Jingshu: ? Nobody told her about this.
Jiang Jingshu thought to herself, what should I do? She can't read it, she can't just read it randomly.
It seems like the only option left is to read it randomly.
The girl next to her seemed to notice Jiang Jingshu's embarrassment and said, "Teacher, let me go first."
Hearing this, Jiang Jingshu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She diligently memorized the pronunciation of those around her. The girl's pronunciation was very standard, a very formal American accent. Her English teacher was very satisfied and praised her several times.
Although Jiang Jingshu tried her best to memorize it, it was something completely unfamiliar to her, so she read it very awkwardly.
The students below the podium were laughing.
Jiang Jingshu stammered as she read the words she had just memorized on the blackboard. Basically, every time she read them, the English teacher would say the correct ones and ask her to repeat them.
Jiang Jingshu read those fifteen words for a long time.
The English teacher asked her to go to the office after class, and as soon as get out of class ended, Jiang Jingshu was already standing in the office.
The English teacher held up their class's English report card, pointed to Jiang Jingshu's name in the third-to-last line, and said earnestly, "Jingshu, you've become a completely different person these past two days. Your English used to be quite good, didn't it?"
Jiang Jingshu listened to her English teacher's words while thinking about how to respond.
The English teacher didn't seem to wait for her response, but said again, "You should listen to more English these next few days. It's hard to pick it up again if you've been away for too long. It's such a pity that you learned it so well before."
Jiang Jingshu nodded, facing the English teacher with a very humble and obedient attitude.
In the English teacher's eyes, Jiang Jingshu was probably the kind of child who had been playing around for a long time and had forgotten everything she knew. The teacher didn't say anything more and quickly sent Jiang Jingshu back.
Jiang Jingshu was about to go back when she bumped into Zhou Xiao, who had just entered the office. "Jingshu, I have something to tell you."
Jiang Jingshu followed Zhou Xiao into the office.
"You called the police about Wang Shengli, right?" Zhou Xiao looked at Jiang Jingshu with a serious expression, devoid of any smile.
Jiang Jingshu nodded.
Zhou Xiao spoke again, "Grandpa Wang Shengli fainted when he heard about this and is still in the hospital." As she spoke, she observed Jiang Jingshu's expression.
Seeing that Jiang Jingshu's expression didn't change much, Zhou Xiao continued, trying to reason with her and appeal to her emotions, "Didn't Wang Shengli apologize to you? He said you ignored him. Wang Shengli's grandfather also called you, but you hung up immediately. I promised to give you an explanation, but you wouldn't listen to anything and went straight to the police, bypassing your teacher. I don't understand. Why don't you trust me to handle these things?"
"Teacher, do you want me to drop the case?" Jiang Jingshu didn't say much; she just stared at Zhou Xiao.
Seemingly flustered by Jiang Jingshu's burning gaze, she said, "This is the school's decision."
"Teacher, I am the victim in this matter, not the school. The school's intentions are not my intentions."
"As someone who's been through this, I'm seriously advising you. This isn't something to be proud of, and it hasn't caused you any irreversible harm. He's already apologized to you, and his grandfather was hospitalized because of it. He'll definitely be punished by the school. Given all this, are you still going to hold a grudge? Be more forgiving and forgiving."
"I'd like to ask the teacher, what constitutes irreversible damage?" Jiang Jingshu finally understood. She was simply insisting on protecting her rights, but in other people's eyes, she was being unreasonable and taking advantage of others.
He just wanted to give himself a final explanation, but in the eyes of others, he became a selfish, narrow-minded, and bad person.
"Does the teacher think I'm in the wrong now?" Jiang Jingshu retorted. "Did I force Wang Shengli to secretly film me? Did I force him to post things unfavorable to me on the forum? Did I beat his grandfather so badly he had to go to the hospital?"
"He did everything by himself. He was the one who secretly took the photos, he was the one who spread the rumors, and he was the one who angered Grandpa to the point of hospitalization. Yet he says I'm being unreasonable?" Jiang Jingshu almost laughed in anger. "Teacher, what kind of rule is this?"
"Do you really think you did nothing wrong?" Zhou Xiao asked, her face showing a hint of anger. "Is it right for you to bypass the school and go directly to the police?"
"If you had done something, would I have gone to the point of calling the police?" Jiang Jingshu laughed angrily. "What? Didn't I tell you the first thing when I found out about this? Do you remember what you said back then? You said you would give me an explanation."
"And then what? I waited a long time for your explanation, but what I got was Wang Shengli taking advantage of my kindness and the omnipresent isolation from my classmates. I don't believe you, as the homeroom teacher, were unaware of these things."
"Is this how you talk to your teacher, Jiang Jingshu?" Zhou Xiao patted his chest, and the English teacher leaned over and patted Zhou Xiao on the back.
"You did nothing but you're making me wait for an explanation? What, is the school coming to you to pressure me now that I've made a scene? Teacher, this is outrageous! No one would be calm after being spread these kinds of rumors."
The rumors have already spread, so does the truth still matter?
How many people would care about the truth of the matter?
When people mention Jiang Jingshu, isn't the first thing that comes to mind "that Jiang Jingshu who lingers in hotels"?
The harm is already done when a rumor is first spread.
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When Jiang Jingshu returned to the classroom, Su Xiaoyue came over and said, "Did the English teacher say something to you? Don't take it to heart."
Jiang Jingshu shook her head. "Xiaoyue, how should I learn pronunciation?"
Su Xiaoyue was also somewhat shocked, "Jiang Jiang, I really think you're so strange. You really don't know anything about it?"
"I had a fever a while ago, and I felt like I was going to lose my mind from the fever," was all Jiang Jingshu could say.
Su Xiaoyue was skeptical, but recommended a few good English movies to her, saying, "Actually, I think watching American TV series is the most effective. These are some very good ones. You can learn English while relaxing, which is great, right?"
Jiang Jingshu nodded, "Thank you, Xiaoyue." She wrote down the names of these American TV series, then remembered something, "Xie Zhijin took the day off today."
Su Xiaoyue nodded. "Did the teacher ask you to deliver his homework?" Before Jiang Jingshu could respond, Su Xiaoyue nodded to herself again. "Oh right, I forgot that you live close by. We even went home together a while ago."
As Jiang Jingshu listened, Su Xiaoyue suddenly leaned closer to her, as if questioning her, "Tell me, do you like Xie Zhijin?"
Jiang Jingshu: ?
Seemingly surprised by Su Xiaoyue's words, she was speechless and puzzled, even resorting to an ancient accent in her haste, "Why do you say that?"
Su Xiaoyue made a face. "Who told you to suddenly bring him up?"
Su Xiaoxiao said, handing the test paper to Jiang Jingshu, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Last time someone brought you homework. You should bring it to him this time too."
"What kind of test paper is this?" Jiang Jingshu looked at the test paper that Su Xiaoyue had shoved into her hand. "Is it English homework?"
"As expected of my Jiang Jiang, he's the only one absent from the class. Since you're the English class representative, I'm appointing you as my personal little courier to deliver the test papers to Xie Zhijin." Su Xiaoyue said, striking a regal pose as she looked at Jiang Jingshu.
Jiang Jingshu cooperated readily, bowing slightly with the etiquette she had learned in the palace, saying, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Su Xiaoyue grabbed Jiang Jingshu's hand, "Not bad, it seems you've learned about 70-80% of the palace etiquette. You deserve a reward."
"What does Your Excellency intend to reward me with?" Jiang Jingshu gently scratched Su Xiaoyue's palm.
"How about I bring you some big steamed buns my mom made tomorrow?" Su Xiaoyue said to Jiang Jingshu, feigning thought.
“Very well, then I thank you, Your Majesty.” Jiang Jingshu replied with a smile.
After playing around, Su Xiaoyue let go of Jiang Jingshu's hand, "Why do I feel like you really are like someone from ancient times?"
"Maybe I am." Jiang Jingshu just smiled and stared at Su Xiaoxiaoyue without saying anything else.
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